Niki Johnson

Niki Johnson is a percussionist and composer-performer whose musical practice explores sound, relationships through collaboration, and theatre. She is a 2021 nominee of the Classical Freedman Fellowship, and currently undertaking a MRes at Monash University developing her sculptural percussion practice. She is a Speak Percussion Bespoke Artist, and has performed with chamber ensembles such as Ensemble Offspring and Synergy Percussion. Niki has recorded percussion for Fox studios, the ABC, and 301 Studios, and performed in multiple festivals including the Sydney Festival and CIMF. Her solo projects and experimental collaborations involve found sounds, creating new instruments, theatre, and interdisciplinary works.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.